Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End1 review Roy Licklider NYU Press, 1995 The Best this book was very very good with a lot of informations and helpful. it helped me a lot on my research paper for my history class. at first, i had a really hard time trying to find informations about what ended the war and how it ended, but when i got to this, it gave me so much informations. ...             International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era (Pitt Latin ... University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998 Domínguez has drawn together fifteen leading scholars on international relations and comparative politics from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, thus bringing to bear varying national perspectives from several corners of the hemisphere to analyze the intersection between regional security issues and the democracy building process in Latin America.             The Yemeni war of 1994: causes and consequences (Middle East Studies) Jamal S. Al-Suwaidi Editor) Saqi Books, 1996 2nd Edition. On may 22nd 1990, a long-standing Yemeni national deram became a reality when North and South Yemen were united in the Republic of Yemen. The process of political integration was violently disrupted four years later, however, and civil war broke out. This book is an examination of the 1994 civil war by five international area experts. The events leading to the conflict are ...             (Tamil) Tigers and the lion: the evolution of Sri Lanka's civil war.: An article from: Harvard International ... Robert C. Oberst Harvard International Relations Council, Inc., 1996 This digital document is an article from Harvard International Review, published by Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 3795 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any ...             The Nine Nations of North America19 reviews Joel Garreau Avon Books (P), 1989 North America as You Really Know It + Some predictions in this book are prescient, others are still futuristic + Merits Reprinting and Slight Updating + Dated, but still excellent             Military Crisis Management: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965 (Contributions in Military ... Herbert G. Schoonmaker Greenwood Press, 1990 This account of the 1965 Dominican intervention is a case study in U.S. crisis management. Herbert Schoonmaker analyzes the role and management of U.S. military forces in the Dominican crisis. Like other Cold War interventions, the Dominican intervention demonstrated the use of rapidly reacting, joint military forces to achieve limited political objectives. It also represents a good vehicle for ...             Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global ...19 reviews Daniel Wilkinson Duke University Press, 2004 you must read this book + Excellent book about Guatemalas dark past + Gripping Story About Guatemala + Covert US War + Good book if you have patience             Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico4 reviews Bill Weinberg Verso, 2000 veracity and insight + Required reading + insightful This book ties together over 500 years of Mayan history and places the current conflict in its accurate historical and cultural setting. Unlike many of the current videos and some books that have been published on Chiapas and surrounding areas of Mexico since the Zapatista uprising, the author has ...             Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Latin ...1 review Lewis Taylor Liverpool University Press, 2006 Sendero Luminoso in the Northern Andes Explained I attended college in Lima in 1983-4, just as Sendero Luminoso's insurgency started to gain momentum. In the city, we would hear stories of political violence up in the mountains that seemed almost unbelievable in their ferocity. As murders, massacres and counter-massacres mounted, it seemed as ...             Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences2 reviews Christopher Bennett NYU Press, 1997 Informative, complex, eye-opening, hard to read + Detailed account of the formation and breakup of Yugoslavia After reading this book, I bought a copy for my son who is a U.S Army paratrooper expecting to be deployed to Kosovo. The author provides good perspective on the history & demise of Yugoslavia, and on subsequent events up to 1995. While especially critical of the Serbs, he demonstrates flaws and ...             The African Dream: The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo3 reviews Ernesto "Che" Guevara Grove Press, 2001 Entertaining + Comments on "The African Dream" + Che in the Congo While it might not have been intended as such this is actually a pretty funny read. 'Che' may have been motivated by high ideals but in his diaries he documents the nitty gritty of daily life and the trials of trying to whip a revolutionary army into shape. Frequently beset by attacks of 'the runs' ...             The Algerian Civil War1 review Luis Martinez, John Entelis Columbia University Press, 2000 Much better than expected I work on Algeria issues as a big part of my job so I picked up this book at the library. I was expecting it to be a tedious academic study without much in there for someone who has to deal with the real world. Surprisingly, it was readable and very interesting. I highly recommend this to anyone ...             The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Absence of Peace)4 reviews Nicholas Guyatt Zed Books, 1998 A very informative, well-researched book + Excellent presentation of the Palestinian perspective Nicholas Guyatt's "The Absence of Peace" is a well-researched, thoughtful book on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Focusing on developments since the 1993 Oslo accords, Guyatt considers the causes of the peace agreement's failure. The author concentrates on the inherent difficulties in the accords ...             The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Stathis N. Kalyvas Cambridge University Press, 2006 By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of ...             Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Elisabeth Jean Wood Cambridge University Press, 2003 Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not, as well as on interviews with military commanders from both sides. She explains how widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations ...             The Civil War in Nicaragua: Inside the Sandinistas1 review Roger Miranda, William Ratliff Transaction Publishers, 1993 Very informative and intimate view of the Sandinistas. This book is required reading for anyone studying Nicaraguan or Latin American History. It is one of the best books I have read on the Nicaraguan revolution. Roger Miranda was actually the chief of the Sandinista Defence Ministry, having someone that was so involved in the revolution makes this a ...             All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime16 reviews William H. Rehnquist Vintage, 2000 Brilliant and prescient + Writ of Habeas Corpus / Civil Rights in War Time + "A citizen is a person owing allegiance to some organized government, & not a person in an idealized 'state of nature...'" + An Informative Read             The Origins of the Angolan Civil War: Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict1 review Fernando Andresen Guimaraes Palgrave Macmillan, 2001 Insightful, thoughtful, often beautifully written analysis Insightful, thoughtful and often beautifully written analysis the internal and external forces that lead to the devasting, unending civil war in Angola. Addressing the geopolitical pressures informing the intervention into a local internal conflict of the Portuguese, South Africans, Soviets, ...             Protection Racket State Cl (Political Science/Latin America Studies)1 review William Stanley Temple University Press, 1996 Military Extortion This volume, which has been reviewed quite widely, is an excellent contribution to understanding the nature of the conflict in ES and the kind of social trade offs elites made to stay in power. A really useful addition to military in LA studies, revolution studies and of course required for ...             Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest, No. 24) Beatrice Julian, David Kohut, ... The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003 During the 1970s and 1980s, national-security regimes in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay declared war on suspected subversives, carrying out campaigns of mass human rights violations. The Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars describes the period, including the background and aftermath.